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JMA Shared Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake at the World Meteorological Congress

Geneva, Switzerland
24 May 2011

    On 20 May 2011, The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) organized a side-event about JMA's emergency responses to the massive earthquake affecting Japan on the 11th of March 2011 during the Congress-16. The purpose of the side-event was to share the lessons learnt from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. At the event, the JMA's emergency response to the earthquake was highly evaluated as one of the best examples of disaster risk managements by the WMO secretariat and WMO Members. The detail on the event is available at the WMO website.

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From left to right: Geoff Love, Director, Disaster Risk Reduction Programme, Noritake Nishide, Director-General of the Forecast department, JMA, Naoyuki Hasegawa, Head, Office of International Affairs, JMA